Reference
QSR1823/353
Title
Examinations and depositions regarding the prosecution of James Short of Westoning, labourer, for felony.
Date free text
1823
Production date
From: 1823 To: 1823
Scope and Content
Information of Edward Field of Dunstable, labourer. As he was going from his house at 6 a.m. to his master's (Mr Burr) house, he saw, near the Sugar Loaf inn, a man whom he did not know 'coming up the street towards the Market Place'. He had a 'flat upon his head.' The flat was 'what is usually termed a square one and was not a new one, but was of dark colour.'Information of James Turner of Dunstable, butcher. Similar to the foregoing; he saw a man about the same time near the Market House. About 8 a.m. he saw the man in the Swan With Two Necks public house drinking with a man named Linger. He informed the constable that and the man was pursued down the High Street an on towards 'Dunstable Houghton' [Houghton Regis], but he escaped. James Turner then returned to his butcher's stall and about 9.30 a.m. went with Mr Cartwright to the Crow public house and asked Linger the name of the man whom he had been drinking with earlier. Linger said 'I know nothing about the turkies' an later confessed that the man was James Short of Westoning.
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